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This new (bilingual) edition of the 15th-century poet1s work incorporates recent scholarship.
Despite the hundreds of books and scholarly articles which have been devoted to him, François Villon remains a mysterious figure who, in the words of the sort of paradox he applies to himself, appears both near yet far. Near because he seems to articulate feelings to which readers down the ages have been able to respond, far because the world he lived in seems to a modern reader a tantalizingly foreign one. No analysis of the poet's work is complete without some description of that world in all its physical and mental strangeness. This new book will also show how Villon consciously fashioned his own image, manipulating his original readers and offering them a version of himself and his tale...
Taylor explores the work of François Villon and his relationship to his predecessors and contemporaries.
The poems of master Francis Villon of Paris was published in London by Reeves & Turner, 1881. SLV copy has 2 signatures on front endpapers - Alfred George Stephens and Norman Lindsay.
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